Hêlal
deity sky Canaanite single tradition · 1
Hêlal is a mighty warrior whose ambition was to ascend higher than all the other stellar divinities, but who had to descend to the depths. It thus portrayed as a battle the process by which the bright morning star fails to reach the highest point in the sky before being faded out by the rising sun.
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 100
- Historical notes
- Canaanite religion flourished from the Bronze Age through the early Roman period.
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wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Hermann Gunkel's reconstruction of the myth told of a mighty warrior called Hêlal, whose ambition was to ascend higher than all the other stellar divinities, but who had to descend to the depths”
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